Moon Lake (2009)

Directed by

Ivan Stanev

Genre

independent film

Country

Germany

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two couples live out parallel stories that echo the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. The film uses daydreams and recurring themes to create a distorted, nonlinear meditation on doomed love.

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What happens

Moon Lake is a 2009 Bulgarian-German-French art film written and directed by Ivan Stanev. The film was produced by independent Bulgarian producer Donka Angelova and co-produced by Stanev Films (Berlin) and Patrick Sandrin (Sofilm). It was presented at Sofia Film Fest 2010 and Cyprus International Film Festival 2012 and later curated by Kathrin Brunner and Oliver Czeslik (mYndstorm productions), Berlin. Moon Lake has a nonlinear narrative structure and uses a leitmotiv technique with recurring themes and day dreams. It focuses not on suspense but on distorted contemplation. The film follows the parallel stories of two couples that represent the doomed lovers Orpheus and Eurydice of Greek mythology. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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